Braised Pork Chops in Sour Cream Sauce

This is one of my new favorites! I love the sauce, it's rich and creamy without a lot of calories and fat! There are 259 calories and 12 grams of fat per serving. That's pretty good especially since the sauce is wonderful! I love to serve this with garlic roasted red potatoes and dip those potatoes in the extra sauce. Yummy!

(I double this recipe)

4 pork chops
salt and pepper
3/4 cup beef broth, divided
1 T A-1 sauce (or bbq sauce if you prefer that)
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/3 cup sour cream
3 T flour

Sprinkle chops with salt and pepper.

Spray non-stick skillet with cooking spray, heat pan and add chops. Cover and cook until lightly browned on both sides, abt 5 to 10 min.

In small bowl, combine 1/2 cup broth with 1 T A-1 sauce. Pour this over chops, cover and simmer until chops are cooked through, abt 10 min.

Remove chops, cover to keep warm. In bowl, combine remaining broth, milk, sour cream and flour until smooth. Pour into skillet and cook over med to low heat until thickened. May need to thin with additional milk or broth.

Serve sauce over chops.

BBQ Chicken Marinade

Tonight I made BBQ chicken by request from Jeremy!!

This is not a post on how to BBQ but rather just a excellent marinade for chicken that will be BBQ'd or even baked. We have used Italian Dressing on our chicken ever since I can remember learning how to bbq as a Teenager. After all these years I have decided that my favorite marinade for chicken is Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing.

I know this sounds like a commercial and it kind of is. If you are pinching penny's, store brand Italian Dressing will do or if other brands are on sale you could use them too, but I prefer to spend the extra few and buy Kraft, don't skimp on the fat free...buy the good stuff!! Actually Kraft is one of the cheaper brands. Different brands have slightly different tastes, you might find you like another brand better!!

Marinade for as long as you can but if you are short on time, allow at least 1 hour . Tupperware has a good container for marinating, it's called the Season Serve Container...(Yes I used to sell Tupperware but don't anymore.) The Tupperware container allows you to flip the box over and over, without leaking to get the marinade flowing!! I can easily fit about 10-15 Chicken Breasts in this container!! Don't forget you can buy these on ebay and save a little money...opps did I say that? A large Zip Lock bag works good too, but they do tend to leak!!

Chicken Sorrento

The actual recipe calls for a bag of frozen stir fry vegetable blend but I didn't have that on hand so I used frozen broccoli and some fresh carrots and celery instead. I thought it turned out really good!

INGREDIENTS
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (about 5 oz each)
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄8 tsp pepper
2 tsp olive oil
1 bottle (8 oz) creamy Italian dressing
1 bag (16 oz) frozen stir-fry vegetable blend

PREPARATION
1. Sprinkle chicken with the salt and pepper.

2. Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 2 minutes on each side, or until golden.

3. Pour dressing on chicken; turn to coat. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes.

4. Add frozen vegetables, cover and cook 5 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and vegetables are crisp-tender.